24 Hours of Le Mans wins by engine type (2016 update)

"KnowsAboutCars" (knowsaboutcars) 06/19/2016 at 13:40 • Filed to: le mans

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Do you know/Can you guess what engine type has powered most 24 Hours of Le Mans winners?

1.) V12 number of wins: 20

Picture credit: RM Auctions

V12 wins by manufacturer

Ferrari 9 wins (1949, 1954, 1958, 1960-65)

Matra/Audi* 3 wins each (1972-74, 2006-08)

Jaguar/BMW 2 wins each (1988, 1990, 1995, 1999)

Peugeot* 1 win (2009)

*Diesel

2.) Flat-6 number of wins: 14

Picture credit: Pawel Litwinski

Flat-6 wins by manufacturer

Porsche 14 wins (1976-77, 1979, 1981-87, 1994, 1996-98)

2.) Inline 6 number of wins: 14

Inline 6 wins by manufacturer

Jaguar 5 wins (1951, 1953, 1955-57)

Lorraine-Dietrich/Bentley 2 wins each (1925-26, 1929-30)

Meadows/Delahaye/Talbot-Lago/Mercedes-Benz/Aston Martin 1 win each (1935, 1938, 1950, 1952, 1959)

3.) V8 number of wins: 13

V8 wins by manufacturer

Audi 5 wins (2000-02, 2004-05)

Ford 4 wins (1966-69)

Cosworth 2 wins (1975, 1980)

Mercedes-Benz/Bentley 1 win each (1989, 2003)

4.) V6 number of wins: 8

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5.) Inline 8 number of wins: 6

Picture credit: Pawel Litwinski

Inline 8 wins by manufacturer

Alfa Romeo 4 wins (1931-34)

Bugatti 2 wins (1937, 1939)

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6.) Inline 4 number of wins: 4

Inline 4 wins by manufacturer

Bentley 3 wins (1924, 1927-28)

Chenard et Walcker 1 win (1923)

7.) V10 number of wins: 3

V10 wins by manufacturer

Peugeot 2 wins (1992-93)

Audi* 1 win (2010)

*Diesel

7.) V4 number of wins: 3

Picture credit: Porsche

V4 wins by manufacturer

Porsche* 3 wins (2015-17)

*Hybrid

8.) Flat-12 number of wins: 2

Flat-12 wins by manufacturer

Porsche 2 wins (1970-71)

9.) 4-rotor Wankel number of wins: 1

4-rotor Wankel wins by manufacturer

Mazda 1 win (1991)

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > KnowsAboutCars 06/09/2014 at 15:49

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Le Mans LMP1 power, make up.

Slave2anMG > KnowsAboutCars 06/09/2014 at 15:51

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And here I was going to say spark ignition or something else dopey...

Axel-Ripper > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 06/17/2015 at 13:09

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What happened to the toy?

citizennick > Axel-Ripper 06/17/2015 at 13:12

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It clearly sucked because their headlights weren’t 3-feet off the ground.

daender > KnowsAboutCars 06/17/2015 at 13:14

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Couldn’t Bentley’s V8 win actually count as another Audi V8 win? It’s the same Audi engine and setup but punched out to 4.0 liters over the original 3.6 liters.

Bentley Speed 8:

Audi R8:

KnowsAboutCars > daender 06/17/2015 at 13:26

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I guess it could but the engine was modified by Bentley and they officially called it Bentley engine so I’m going with that.

Wave Motion Gun > KnowsAboutCars 06/17/2015 at 14:07

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Here’s a handy one for Nissan to use next year.

904 GTS > KnowsAboutCars 06/17/2015 at 14:41

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What a BULL !!! Will have to tell this to Ing. Baretsky so we can have a good laugh.

A PR FOG, of course

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Wave Motion Gun 06/19/2016 at 15:30

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I had completely forgotten about that clusterfuck from last year. At the time I thought it was going to be a platform they could keep playing with until it was somewhat competitive, but they pulled the plug on it.